Michelle Solomon

Hollywood, FL USA

Professional Experience

I've single-handedly launched custom-publishing magazines from the ground up for five star hotels and luxury products, from writing, editing and creative direction to overseeing production. Expertise in luxury writing. Also health and business profiles. I am a deadline driven, results-producing editor/writer who learned to write in newspaper and television breaking news, so stories are done quickly and accurately.

Total Media Industry Experience

20 Years

Media Client List (# assignments last 2 yrs)

Community Media Corporation (10+), Mandarin Oriental Hotels (10+), Post Newsweek Company (10+), Worth International (6-10), MGM Grand Macau (1-2), Peninsula Hotels (1-2), InterContinental Hong Kong (1-2)

Technical Skills

Able to work within CSS coding, search engine optimization (SEO), content management systems (CMS)

Unions

National Writers Union

Computer Skills

Word, Excel, InDesign, Windows XP, HTML, Photoshop

Equipment

laptop, digital camera, Canon professional camera, IPC recorder, canon scanner

General

Produced, wrote entire in-room magazine.
Profile for Helm Bank, Miami
Feature about the nation's top product designers.
This was a story for a very unusual high end watch company. The story ran in the Mandarin Oriental hotel San Francisco book, in its Luxury Portfolio section.
Broward Health assigned story about woman who was helped after being diagnosed with breast cancer.
Celebrity Chatter column dishes weekly info about stars.
Client story for Mandarin Oriental Munich book about a home accessories store on MaximilianStrasse.
Luxury story on 100 Percent Capri located in Bal Harbour Shops for The Mandarin Oriental Miami Art Book. Interview with designer of brand.
Client piece about TARA for The Peninsula Beverly Hills Art Book Vol. 1
Profile of Chris Evert, tennis player, for Broward Health magazine.
Assigned profile of cancer survivor Lisa Boccard.
Luxury Portfolio stories for Brioni (men's wear), Armani Boutique, Miami; and Cartier's Made In America celebration.
Assigned story about upscale watches.
An assigned story about a young woman suffering from not only brain cancer, but thyroid cancer. New to America, she finds a team of doctors at Broward Health that save her life, and her not-yet-born baby.
Cartier celebrates 100 Years in America for the Mandarin Oriental Miami Luxury Art Book.
Story about purse creator Lana Marks for The Peninsula Beverly Hills Luxury Art Book.
Sponsor editorials from Croizet to Chanel, Hermes to Veuve Clicquot.
Travel stories from Bali to Beijing.
Interview with Tiffany & Co.'s new design director Francesca Amfitheatrof for Fisher Magazine, Miami.
Review of Fleetwood Mac in Fort Lauderdale
Winter Music Conference
A man who makes sculptures out of salt
Profile of the Wildenstein Gallery New York
Blue Man Group at Universal Studios
Collecting Art feature
An interview with fiery Indian filmmaker Deepa Mehta about her movie "Water."
Story on Ralph Lauren for Mandarin Oriental Washington DC book.
Galerie Leu in Munich, Germany, for the Mandarin Oriental Munich art book.
Profile of Galerie Thomas in Munich, Germany, for the Mandarin Oriental Munich art book.
Gloria Estefan at AAA in Miami.
Sandra Bernhard performs a two night music filled stint at South Beach's Colony Theatre.
Story for the Mandarin Oriental Miami on Corum Watches.
Assigned feature on a Pet Therapy program at Broward County (FL) hospitals.
Do cellulite creams really work? Assigned feature for Broward Health magazine.